Every company that's been around longer than a few months has probably created or purchased many different systems dedicated to specific areas of the business. For example, let's say customer files were set up years ago using off-the-shelf software. The software h...

Last month in JDJ (Vol. 6, issue 5) we looked at the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) connector architecture (JCA) and its common client interface (CCI). To recap, JCA is the part of the J2EE 1.3 specification that facilitates the integration of Java a...

Most companies have a large investment in legacy systems for ERP, transaction processing, and database applications. Everyone's talking about how they can leverage these systems and integrate them into their modern, multitier, e-business application architectures.

In Part I of this article (JDJ, Vol.6, issue I) we discussed solving legacy data integration problems with VisualAge for Java and WebSphere Studio. In Part 2 we'll discuss using the MQSeries Integrator and some of the steps for creating data translations and data flows.

Every company that's been around longer than a few months has probably created or purchased many different systems dedicated to specific areas of the business. For example, let's say customer files were set up years ago using off-the-shelf software. The software h...